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Killing Joke

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Killing Joke is an English rock band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. [1]

209 relations: A New Day (song), A-side and B-side, Absolute Dissent, Adorations, Al Jourgensen, Alban Schachleiter, Aleister Crowley, Alex Paterson, All Media Network, All Tomorrow's Parties (festival), AllMusic, America (Killing Joke song), Andy Gill, Andy Kanavan, Andy Rourke, Anne Dudley, Apocalypse, Armageddon, Art of Noise, Artist-in-residence, Atomic Age, Þeyr, BBC Radio, Big Life, Birds of a Feather (Killing Joke song), Black Sabbath, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (album), Brilliant (band), Butterfly Recordings, Candlelight Records, Change (Killing Joke song), Cheltenham, Chris Connelly (musician), Chris Kimsey, Churn (Shihad album), Clash (magazine), Classic rock, Classic Rock (magazine), Conny Plank, Cooking Vinyl, Courtauld Institute of Art, Dance-punk, Dave Grohl, Democracy (album), Dub music, DVD, E.G. Records, Eighties (song), Electronic music, EMI, ..., Empire Song, European Union, Extended play, Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions, Faith No More, Fear Factory, Fire Dances, Follow the Leaders, Foo Fighters, Fred Astaire, Funk, Future plc, Geoff Dugmore, Geordie Walker, Godflesh, Gothic rock, Guardian Media Group, Ha (Killing Joke album), Heavy metal music, Helmet (band), Hosannas from the Basements of Hell, Hossam Ramzy, Iceland, Ilosaarirock, Industrial metal, Industrial rock, Invisible Records, Island Records, Isle of Wight Festival, James Hetfield, James Murphy (electronic musician), Jane's Addiction, Jaz Coleman, Jimmy Copley, Jimmy Page, John Bechdel, John Peel, Justin Broadrick, Keith Levene, Kerrang!, Kevin Shields, Killing Joke (1980 album), Killing Joke (2003 album), King Crimson, Kraftwerk, Kris Needs, Larry's Hideaway, Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Lemmy, Losing My Edge, Love Like Blood (song), Manifesto, Martin Atkins, Mötley Crüe, Me or You?, Melody Maker, Metal Hammer, Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, Metallica, Ministry (band), MMXII (album), Money Is Not Our God, Monty Python, Motörhead, Murder, Inc. (band), My Bloody Valentine (band), My Love of This Land, Nazi salute, Neu!, New wave music, Niceland (band), Nick Holywell-Walker, Nick Launay, Night Time (album), Nine Inch Nails, NME, Noise Records, Notting Hill, Numerology, O2 Brixton Academy, Occult, Orchestra, Outside the Gate, Pandemonium (Killing Joke album), Paul Ferguson, Paul Raven (musician), Paul Verhoeven, Perry Farrell, Peter Hook, Petr Zelenka, Pigface, Pink Floyd, Polydor Records, Pope Pius XI, PopMatters, Post-punk, Prague, Prong (band), Public Image Ltd, Punk rock, Pylon (album), Rebellion Festival, Record label, Record Store Day, Revelations (Killing Joke album), Rip It Up and Start Again, Rock music, Rough Guides, Sack Trick, Sanity (song), Shepherd's Bush Empire, Shihad, Shoegazing, Showgirls, Simon Reynolds, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Songs from the Victorious City, Sonisphere Festival, Soundgarden, Sounds (magazine), Spinefarm Records, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Sundance TV, Synth-pop, Ted Parsons, Terrorizer (magazine), The Charlatans (English band), The Courtauld Talks, The Damage Manual, The Doors, The Fireman (band), The Guardian, The Quietus, The Rolling Stones, The Ruts, The Selecter, The Smiths, Tim Burgess (musician), Tom Larkin, Top of the Pops, Toronto, Transmission (band), Trent Reznor, Troy Gregory, Turn to Red/Almost Red, UK Albums Chart, Uncut (magazine), Virgin Records, War on Terror, Wardance (song), What's THIS For...!, Woodstock Festival (Poland), Yes (band), Youth (musician), Zoo Entertainment (record label), 2003 invasion of Iraq. Expand index (159 more) »

A New Day (song)

"A New Day" is a non-album single by Killing Joke.

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A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Absolute Dissent

Absolute Dissent is the thirteenth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke.

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Adorations

"Adorations" is Killing Joke's first single from their sixth studio album, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, released in August 1986.

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Al Jourgensen

Allen David "Al" Jourgensen (born Alejandro Ramírez Casas; October 9, 1958) is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician and music producer.

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Alban Schachleiter

Alban Schachleiter (20 January 1861 – 20 June 1937) was a Roman Catholic Benedictine monk and musicologist.

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Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.

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Alex Paterson

Alex Paterson (also known as Dr Alex Paterson, born Duncan Alexander Robert Paterson; 15 October 1959 in Battersea, London) is an English musician and co-founder of ambient house group The Orb, in which he has worked since its inception.

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All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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All Tomorrow's Parties (festival)

All Tomorrow's Parties was an organisation based in London that promoted music festivals, concerts and records throughout the world for over ten years.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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America (Killing Joke song)

"America" is Killing Joke's first single from their seventh studio album, Outside the Gate.

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Andy Gill

Andrew James Dalrymple "Andy" Gill (born 1 January 1956) is a founding member and guitarist for the English rock group Gang of Four.

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Andy Kanavan

Andy Kanavan was an English classical musician and multi-instrumentalist.

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Andy Rourke

Andrew Michael Rourke (born 17 January 1964) is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the Smiths.

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Anne Dudley

Anne Dudley (born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician.

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Apocalypse

An apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω, literally meaning "an uncovering") is a disclosure of knowledge or revelation.

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Armageddon

According to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible, Armageddon (from Ἁρμαγεδών Harmagedōn, Late Latin: Armagedōn, from Hebrew: Har Megiddo) is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or a symbolic location.

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Art of Noise

Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were an English avant-garde synth-pop group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn and music journalist Paul Morley.

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Artist-in-residence

Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities exist to invite artists, academicians, curators, to reside within the premises of an institution.

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Atomic Age

The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear ("atomic") bomb, Trinity, on July 16, 1945, during World War II.

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Þeyr

Þeyr was a renowned Icelandic new wave band from the early 1980s.

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927).

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Big Life

Big Life was a record label established in 1987 by Jazz Summers and Tim Parry.

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Birds of a Feather (Killing Joke song)

"Birds of a Feather" is a song by English rock band Killing Joke.

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (album)

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns is the sixth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke.

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Brilliant (band)

Brilliant were a British pop/rock group active in the 1980s.

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Butterfly Recordings

Butterfly Recordings is the name used by two record labels.

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Candlelight Records

Candlelight Records is a British record label based in England and founded by former Extreme Noise Terror bassist Lee Barrett, though it has had a division in the United States since January 2001.

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Change (Killing Joke song)

Change is a song by English rock band Killing Joke that first appeared on the US release of their 1980 self-titled debut album.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham, also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a regency spa town and borough which is located on the edge of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England.

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Chris Connelly (musician)

Chris Connelly (born 11 November 1964) is a Scottish musician and author who became famous for his industrial music work of the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly his involvement with the Revolting Cocks and Ministry.

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Chris Kimsey

Christopher Kenneth Kimsey (born 3 December 1951 in Battersea, London, England) is an English record producer, mixer and musician most famous for having co-produced The Rolling Stones' Undercoverhttp://www.allmusic.com/artist/chris-kimsey-mn0000105928 and Steel Wheels albums.

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Churn (Shihad album)

Churn is the debut album by Shihad, released in New Zealand by Wildside Records on 12 July 1993 and in Europe on 25 June 1994 on Modern Music.

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Clash (magazine)

Clash is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom.

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Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.

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Classic Rock (magazine)

Classic Rock is a British magazine dedicated to rock music, published by Future PLC, who are also responsible for its "sister" publications Metal Hammer and Prog magazine.

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Conny Plank

Konrad "Conny" Plank (3 May 1940 – 18 December 1987) was a West German record producer and musician.

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Cooking Vinyl

Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence.

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Courtauld Institute of Art

The Courtauld Institute of Art, commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation.

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Dance-punk

Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk or funk-punk) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and new wave movements.

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Dave Grohl

David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film director.

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Democracy (album)

Democracy is the tenth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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E.G. Records

E.G. Records was a British artist management company and independent record label, mostly active during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Eighties (song)

"Eighties" is Killing Joke's first single from their fifth studio album, Night Time.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Empire Song

Empire Song is a song by English rock band Killing Joke.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions

Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions is the eighth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke, recorded in August 1990 and released in November 1990 by record label Noise.

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Faith No More

Faith No More (sometimes abbreviated as FNM) is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979.

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Fear Factory

Fear Factory is an American heavy metal band that was formed in 1989.

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Fire Dances

Fire Dances is the fourth studio album by English post-punk band Killing Joke, recorded from February to March 1983 and released in July 1983 by record label E.G.

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Follow the Leaders

Follow the Leaders is a song by English rock band Killing Joke.

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Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Future plc

Future plc is a British media company founded in 1985.

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Geoff Dugmore

Geoff Dugmore (born 12 April 1960) is a Scottish drummer, musical director and producer.

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Geordie Walker

Kevin "Geordie" Walker (born 18 December 1958, in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England) is a rock musician, best known as the guitarist from the post-punk group Killing Joke.

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Godflesh

Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England.

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Gothic rock

Gothic rock (alternately called goth-rock or goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the late 1970s.

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Guardian Media Group

Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British mass media company owning various media operations including The Guardian and The Observer.

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Ha (Killing Joke album)

"Ha" or "Ha": Killing Joke Live is the first commercially distributed live recording by English rock band Killing Joke.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Helmet (band)

Helmet is an American alternative metal band from New York City formed in 1989.

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Hosannas from the Basements of Hell

Hosannas from the Basements of Hell is the twelfth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke, released on 3 April 2006 by record label Cooking Vinyl.

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Hossam Ramzy

Hossam Ramzy (حسام رمزي; born in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian percussionist and composer.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Ilosaarirock

The Ilosaarirock Festival is an annual rock festival held on the second weekend of July in Joensuu, Eastern Finland.

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Industrial metal

Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal music and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals.

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Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and rock music.

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Invisible Records

Invisible Records is a Chicago based record label founded by Martin Atkins.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Isle of Wight Festival

The Isle of Wight Festival is a British music festival which takes place annually on the Isle of Wight in Newport, England.

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James Hetfield

James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter for the American heavy metal band Metallica.

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James Murphy (electronic musician)

James Jeremiah Murphy (born February 4, 1970) is an American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985.

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Jaz Coleman

Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman (born 26 February 1960, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is an English-born New Zealand musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer.

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Jimmy Copley

James Frank Copley (29 December 1953 – 13 May 2017) was an English rock drummer.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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John Bechdel

John Bechdel (born August 23, 1964) is an American keyboardist, and has been a part of bands such as Ministry, Fear Factory, Abstinence, Prong, Killing Joke, Murder, Inc. and Brian Brain.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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Justin Broadrick

Justin Karl Michael Broadrick (born 15 August 1969) is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer.

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Keith Levene

Julian Keith Levene (born 18 July 1957 in Muswell Hill, London) is an English musician.

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Kerrang!

Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music, currently published by Wasted Talent (the same company that owns electronic music publication Mixmag).

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Kevin Shields

Kevin Patrick Shields (born 21 May 1963) is an American-born Irish musician, singer-songwriter, composer, and producer, best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the band My Bloody Valentine.

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Killing Joke (1980 album)

Killing Joke is the debut studio album by English rock band Killing Joke.

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Killing Joke (2003 album)

Killing Joke is the eleventh studio album by English rock band Killing Joke.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Kris Needs

Kris Needs (born 3 July 1954) is a British journalist and author, known for writings on music from the 1970s onwards.

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Larry's Hideaway

Larry's Hideaway was a bar in the Prince Carlton Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!

Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! is a compilation album by English rock band Killing Joke, released in 1992 by record label Caroline.

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LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Lemmy

Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy, was an English musician and singer-songwriter who founded and fronted the rock band Motörhead.

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Losing My Edge

"Losing My Edge" is the debut single by American band LCD Soundsystem.

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Love Like Blood (song)

"Love Like Blood" is a song by English rock band Killing Joke.

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Manifesto

A manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.

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Martin Atkins

Martin Clive Atkins (born 3 August 1959, Coventry, England) is an English drummer and session musician, best known for his work in post-punk and industrial groups including Public Image Ltd, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Pigface, and Killing Joke.

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Mötley Crüe

Mötley Crüe was an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California, on January 17, 1981.

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Me or You?

"Me or You?" is the second non-album single by Killing Joke.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer (sometimes known as MetalHammer) is a monthly heavy metal music magazine, published in the United Kingdom by Future Plc and in several other countries by different publishers.

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Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards

The following is a list of the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards winners.

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Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

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Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded in 1981 by Al Jourgensen in Chicago, Illinois.

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MMXII (album)

MMXII ("2012" in Roman numerals) is the fourteenth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke, released on 2 April 2012 by record label Spinefarm and distributed worldwide by Universal Music Group.

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Money Is Not Our God

"Money Is Not Our God" is Killing Joke's second and only official single from their eighth studio album, Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions.

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as The Pythons) were a British surreal comedy group who created their sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first aired on the BBC in 1969.

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Motörhead

Motörhead were an English rock band formed in June 1975 by bassist, singer, and songwriter Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, who was the sole constant member, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox.

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Murder, Inc. (band)

Murder, Inc. was an industrial music supergroup formed in 1991, featuring vocalist Chris Connelly, Killing Joke members Geordie Walker, Paul Raven, "Big Paul" Ferguson, John Bechdel, and former Public Image Ltd drummer Martin Atkins.

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My Bloody Valentine (band)

My Bloody Valentine are a rock band formed in Dublin in 1983.

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My Love of This Land

"My Love of This Land" is Killing Joke's second single from their seventh studio album, Outside the Gate.

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Nazi salute

The Nazi salute, or Hitler salute (Hitler Greeting), is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany.

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Neu!

Neu! (styled as NEU! in block capitals, New!) was a German krautrock band formed in Düsseldorf in 1971 by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother, after their split from Kraftwerk.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Niceland (band)

Niceland, formerly Iceland, was a heavy metal Icelandic group established in 1983 by Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke and the Icelandic band Þeyr.

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Nick Holywell-Walker

Nick Holywell-Walker performed with English band Killing Joke beginning in 1994, as keyboard player and programmer.

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Nick Launay

Nicolas Launay is an English record producer, composer and recording engineer.

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Night Time (album)

Night Time is the fifth studio album by English post-punk band Killing Joke.

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Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Noise Records

Noise Records is a German heavy metal record label founded in 1983 by German music industry personality Karl-Ulrich Walterbach as an expansion of his company Modern Music Records.

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Notting Hill

Notting Hill is a district in West London, located north of Kensington within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (with eastern sections of Westbourne Grove merging into the City of Westminster).

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Numerology

Numerology is any belief in the divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events.

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O2 Brixton Academy

The O2 Academy, Brixton, is one of London's leading music venues, nightclubs and theatres.

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Occult

The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Outside the Gate

Outside the Gate is the seventh album by English rock band Killing Joke, recorded between July and August 1987 and released in June 1988.

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Pandemonium (Killing Joke album)

Pandemonium is the ninth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke, released on 2 August 1994 by record label Butterfly.

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Paul Ferguson

Paul Ferguson (born Matthew Paul Ferguson, 31 March 1958) is a rock drummer, best known for his work in the post-punk/industrial group Killing Joke and cult English punk band Pink Parts.

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Paul Raven (musician)

Paul Vincent Raven (16 January 1961 – 20 October 2007) was a bassist best known for his work in the post-punk group Killing Joke.

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Paul Verhoeven

Paul Verhoeven (born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Perry Farrell

Perry Farrell (born Peretz Bernstein; March 29, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the frontman for the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction.

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Peter Hook

Peter Hook (born Peter Woodhead; 13 February 1956) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Petr Zelenka

Petr Zelenka (born 21 August 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech playwright and director of theatre and film.

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Pigface

Pigface is an industrial music supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI, (Pio XI) born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to his death in 1939.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Prong (band)

Prong is an American heavy metal band formed in 1986 by vocalist and guitarist Tommy Victor, the band's sole constant member.

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Public Image Ltd

Public Image Ltd (abbreviated as PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by singer John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten), guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Pylon (album)

Pylon is the fifteenth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke, released on 23 October 2015 by record label Spinefarm and distributed worldwide by Universal Music Group.

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Rebellion Festival

The Rebellion Festival, formerly Holidays in the Sun and the Wasted Festival is a British punk rock festival first held in 1996.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Record Store Day

Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2007 and held on one Saturday every April to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store".

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Revelations (Killing Joke album)

Revelations is the third studio album by English rock band Killing Joke, released in July 1982 by record label E.G.

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Rip It Up and Start Again

Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 is a book by Simon Reynolds on the post-punk musical genre and era.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rough Guides

Rough Guides Ltd is a British travel guidebook and reference publisher, since November 2017 owned by APA Publications.

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Sack Trick

Sack Trick are an English music collective whose music has been compared to the humour of Monty Python and musical madness of Frank Zappa.

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Sanity (song)

"Sanity" is Killing Joke's second single from their sixth studio album, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns.

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Shepherd's Bush Empire

Shepherd's Bush Empire (currently known as O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire for sponsorship reasons, and formerly called BBC Television Theatre) is a music venue in Shepherd's Bush, London, run by the Academy Music Group.

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Shihad

Shihad are a rock band from New Zealand, formed in 1988.

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Shoegazing

Shoegaze (or shoegazing, originally interchangeable with "dream pop"Nathaniel Wice / Steven Daly: "The dream pop bands were lionized by the capricious British music press, which later took to dismissing them as "shoegazers" for their affectless stage presence.", Alt. Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the '90s-Underground, Online, and Over-The-Counter, p. 73, HarperCollins Publishers 1995) is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s.

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Showgirls

Showgirls is a 1995 French-American erotic drama film written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Paul Verhoeven.

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Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist, critic, and author.

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Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.

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Songs from the Victorious City

Songs From The Victorious City is an album in the world music genre written by Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman, recorded in 1990 in Cairo and London.

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Sonisphere Festival

The Sonisphere Festival is a touring rock music festival which takes place across Europe between June and August.

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Soundgarden

Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto.

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Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991.

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Spinefarm Records

Spinefarm Records is a Finnish record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine (born June 18, 1973) is an American music critic and senior editor for AllMusic.

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Sundance TV

Sundance TV (stylized as SundanceTV, formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by AMC Networks.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Ted Parsons

Ted Parsons is an American drummer most notable for his membership in bands such as Swans, Prong, Godflesh, Killing Joke and Jesu.

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Terrorizer (magazine)

Terrorizer is an extreme music magazine published by Dark Arts Ltd.

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The Charlatans (English band)

The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK) are an English indie rock band.

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The Courtauld Talks

The Courtauld Talks is a live album by English rock band Killing Joke.

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The Damage Manual

The Damage Manual is an industrial supergroup that originally formed in 2000.

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The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and John Densmore on drums.

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The Fireman (band)

The Fireman is the experimental music duo of Paul McCartney and Youth formed in the early 1990s.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Quietus

The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine, focusing on arts news, reviews, and features.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Ruts

The Ruts / Ruts DC are an English reggae-influenced punk rock band, notable for the 1979 UK Top 10 hit "Babylon's Burning", and an earlier single "In a Rut", which was not a hit but was highly regarded and regularly played by BBC Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel.

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The Selecter

The Selecter are a 2 Tone ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in mid-1979.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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Tim Burgess (musician)

Timothy Allan Burgess (born 30 May 1967) is an English singer-songwriter and record label owner, best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Charlatans.

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Tom Larkin

Tom Larkin (born 18 September 1971) is a member of the New Zealand band Shihad, band manager, and music producer.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Transmission (band)

Transmission is an experimental/post-rock band based in the United Kingdom.

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Trent Reznor

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and film score composer.

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Troy Gregory

Troy Gregory (born November 13, 1966 in Detroit, Michigan) is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, filmmaker, and solo artist.

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Turn to Red/Almost Red

Turn to Red is an EP and the debut release by English rock band Killing Joke, released on 26 October 1979 by record label Malicious Damage.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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War on Terror

The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the United States government after the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001.

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Wardance (song)

"Wardance" is a song by English rock band Killing Joke.

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What's THIS For...!

What's THIS For...! is the second studio album by English rock band Killing Joke.

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Woodstock Festival (Poland)

- formerly known as Woodstock Festival Poland (Polish: Przystanek Woodstock; "Woodstock Station"; English-language materials often referred to it simply to the Woodstock Festival Poland) is an annual free rock music festival in Poland, inspired by Woodstock Festival.

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Yes (band)

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.

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Youth (musician)

Martin Glover, known by his stage name Youth, (born 27 December 1960) is an English record producer and a founding member and bassist of Killing Joke.

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Zoo Entertainment (record label)

Zoo Entertainment was an American record label formed in 1990 by Lou Maglia.

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2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War (also called Operation Iraqi Freedom).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Joke

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